Sentences with phrase «above year ago levels»

Occupancy for independent living was still 0.5 percentage points above year ago levels, compared to assisted living which is down 0.3 percentage points from the second quarter of 2014.

Existing - home sales slid in February but remained above year ago levels both nationally and in all major regions.

Not exact matches

The rate has averaged around 36 basis points, about 25 basis points above its average level over the analogous year - ago period, when the target range was zero to 25 basis points.

The big housing market story in Manitoba was a surge of homes being offered for sale with new listings growing to levels almost 14 per cent above where they were a year ago.

Inflation expectations of consumers, as measured by the Melbourne Institute, fell sharply from above 7 per cent in the months preceding the introduction of the GST to 4.6 per cent in July, around the levels recorded a year ago (Graph 42).

On a year - over-year basis, home prices in the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver remain well above year - ago levels (19.4 % year - on - year and 12.7 % year - on - year respectively).

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

Though we don't expect it just yet, a jump in new claims to about 20 % above year - ago levels (currently implying about 320,000 weekly new claims) would be indicative of a shift from «oncoming» to «commenced» recession.

When I was a new stock trader many years ago, one of the most psychologically challenging aspects of swing trading was continually maintaining the discipline and patience to wait for stocks and ETFs to actually break out above their technical resistance levels before buying them.

But now due to global warming over the past 100 years, methane release in the Arctic seems to be accelerating, Walter says, and left unchecked, it will continue to rise well above the levels found 10,000 years ago.

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

The biggest marine landslide ever recorded happened 7,200 years ago off the coast of Norway, and there was a tsunami, but it was a far cry from leaving deposits 200 meters above sea level,» Bryant says.

Five years ago the planet hit 380 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere — 100 ppm above preindustrial levels.

Then, about 3600 years ago, farmers started climbing higher and higher up on the plateau, reaching as far as 3400 meters above sea level.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

The kilns were built for salt production some 300 years ago, just above the winter high - tide level of the time.

A couple of years ago, those researchers also identified a consignment of wheat flour with concentrations of ochratoxin above the permitted level.

The Pucuncho workshop site [4355 meters above sea level (masl)-RSB- includes two fishtail projectile points, which date to about 12.8 to 11.5 thousand years ago (ka).

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

Many years ago, in my third year as a public school teacher, I discovered that about half of my 7th - grade students read four or more years below grade level, and about half read four or more years above grade level.

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.

This is clear from the fact that 12 percent fewer black children read Below Basic this last school year than in 2002 — and that five percent more Latino children are reading at or above grade level in 2015 than 13 years ago.

«Full - size pickups are up just slightly from a year ago, but it's above the 9 - to 10 - percent level we saw in April and May when gas got to $ 4 a gallon,» said Ford sales analyst George Pipas, speaking with reporters at Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

As I said above, I don't anticipate that the eBook graph line will spike again, as it did a few years ago, until we see a truly unique, high - level enhancement hit the market.

In 2014, the share of total purchase originations concentrated in these six areas retreated somewhat, to 26 percent, but remains well above levels of just a few years ago.

Standing at 11,995 feet above sea level, Lake Minchin would've competed with Lake Titicaca for highest lake in the world, but it dried up thousands of years ago, leaving behind the flat concentration of salt we see today.

«These terraces were carved into the mountainside over 2,000 years ago and reach heights of 1500m above sea level,» she says.

The parks highest point is Arthur's Seat, an ancient volcano that sits 251m above sea level giving excellent view of the city and the site of one of four hill forts dating from around 2000 years ago.

It debuted two years ago at E3 2013, eventually reaching critical hype levels once the trailer you see above demonstrated the Batman: Arkham-esque combat.

That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Living at 7,750 feet above sea level, with a summer growing season of 80 days, at best, between killing freezes, how can you grow your own food?

This means that by around 2017, CO2 concentrations will likely be above 400 ppm throughout the entire year, even in the peak of summer when vegetation is fully grown — levels that scientists haven't seen since the Pliocene era, three to five million years ago.

Looking deeper in time, global climate was an average of 2 to 3 degrees warmer than at present some 3 million years ago, and sea levels were 35 ± 18 m above the shoreline of today.

In the same Sky TV interview mentioned above he states: «As was shown by Charles Darwin years ago, the tropical islands like the Maldives they change their level according to sea level».

This winter's 5.1 % capacity margin is lower than last year's 6.1 %, but above the levels seen a decade ago when the lights conspicuously failed to go out (chart, below).

Chacaltaya Glacier, with a mean altitude of 5,260 m above sea level, was the highest skiing station in the world until a very few years ago.

In other words, despite rising sea levels, there is more land area above sea level today than there was 30 years ago because «coasts are growing all over the world ``.

In my community, for example, 20 years ago, the ceiling «R» (insulation level) requirement was R - 13, today it is R - 38 (though expert guidance is «at least R - 45» and most of us who care about energy strive for above R - 50).

By 2000 mean global temperatures have risen about 0.3 oC higher than the maximum of the Medieval Warm Period (1000 - 1200AD) and highest since 125,000 years ago when temperatures reached 2 - 3oC above present levels.

«We estimate sea level for the Middle Pliocene epoch [3.0 — 3.5 million years ago]-- a period with near - modern CO2 levels — at 25 ± 5 metres above present, which is validated by independent sea - level data» (Rohling, Grant et al., 2009).

The most recent major study of ice in the geologic past found that about 130,000 years ago the seas were «several meters above modern levels» and that polar temperatures sufficient to cause a several - meter sea - level rise may eventually result from artificial global warming.

Dr. James Hansen said at a July 20 press conference that average global temperatures today are less than a degree cooler than they were during the last major interglacial or «Eemian» period 120,000 years ago, when global temperatures were just 2 °C above the pre-industrial climate and sea levels stood at five to nine metres higher than they are today.

I live in Fremantle so I'm glad to hear my house built about 70 years ago and still above sea level, will last a little longer before being submerged.

WASHINGTON (February 21, 2013)-- Existing - home sales edged up in January, while a seller's market is developing and home prices continue to rise steadily above year - ago levels, according to the National Association of Realtors ®.

Existing - home sales slipped in February but remained above year - ago levels.

Existing - home sales declined in June, but have remained well above year - ago levels for the past two years.

From a year ago, December sales were higher by 3.5 percent and are now above year - over-year levels for the third straight month.

Existing condominium and co-op sales fell 4.7 percent to an annual rate of 610,000 units in September from 640,000 in August, but are 8.9 percent above the 560,000 - unit level a year ago.

Sales have been above year - ago levels for 20 consecutive months, while prices show 12 consecutive months of year - over-year price increases.

Sales have remained above year - ago levels for the past 27 months.

Existing - home sales edged up in January, while a seller's market is developing and home prices continue to rise steadily above year - ago levels, according to the National Association of Realtors ®.